Amazon deforestation totalled 430 sq kms in January 2022

The area destroyed was five times larger than 2021, the highest January total since records began in 2015

Central banks and climate change: How they can play a role in managing the fallout

Central banks set interest rates, which determines the prices of goods and services. This, in turn, influences the climate impacts of their …

CoP26 Diary (Nov 10): Cover decision draft mentions ‘coal’, ‘fossil fuels’ for first time

Guinea, speaking on behalf of G77, commented that developed country partners showed “no appetite to discuss the definition of climate …

Green lending: World’s biggest banks’ latest initiative at COP26 is a step backwards

It wouldn’t make sense to abruptly forbid lending to non-green projects now, since we need to avoid hitting hardest the banks that are …

COP26: what the draft climate agreement says — and why it’s being criticised

So what does the UK draft text say? It merely “urges” countries to strengthen their NDCs, proposing a meeting of ministers next year …

COVID-19, lack of funds left many countries unable to protect health from climate change: WHO

Many countries do have national health and climate change plans in place but their implementation is impeded by several factors

COP 26: Contentious issues of finance, carbon markets pushed to week 2

CoP26 President Alok Sharma reported progress made during week one in Glasgow in an informal stocktaking plenary November 8 

Climate crisis: Staple crop yield in 8 African countries may decline by 80%, flags report

The crisis will exacerbate food insecurity and poverty if no changes are made to agricultural practices or global policies, erratic …

COP26: Two worlds talked past each other – or never even met

Unlike a decade ago, there was no climate scepticism on show. But how to address the underlying causes of climate change in capitalism remains …

G20’s coal declaration is cosmetic and too little, too late

With a Code Red for humanity, the world expects nothing less than absolute withdrawal from all new investment in coal

Australia’s stumbling, last-minute dash for climate respectability doesn’t negate a decade of abject failure

Australia is the worst-performing of all developed countries when it comes to meaningful climate action

COP26: Africa’s challenges must steer the climate change conference

Africa carries the heaviest burden of the associated climate change effects

We can't stabilise the climate without carbon offsets — so how do we make them work?

Governments should be transparent about the problems of offsetting and move to fix them quickly

COP26 might just end without much to offer

Countries are giving their status in the informal stocktaking plenary, indicating at an impasse

Australia’s top economists back carbon price, say benefits of net-zero outweigh cost

With right settings in place, Australia could become a major producer of zero-emissions hydrogen, and industrial powerhouse that used its iron …

Is UN Security Council inept in resolving climate change?

Despite India’s staunch opposition to UNCS’s mandate on climate change, the securitisation of climate change is inevitable and …

A technology-driven circular business model is essential to reach climate change goals

Adopting a “product-as-a-service” business model is one of the most impactful changes we can make today

CoP26 Diary (Nov 9): India will not update its NDCs till there is clarity on climate finance

Developed countries are also keen to expand the list of donor countries, possibly including China to provide climate finance

A third of global cropland will be drought-hit by 2040 if emissions don’t stop: Report

The yield of staple crops could be globally hit in a business-as-usual scenario for emissions, just at the time when more food is required, …

G20 climate goals just won't do the job, claims new report

Latest Nationally Determined Contributions of 4 countries same or weaker than previous committments

Commitments fall short: Amazonian indigenous people slam CoP26

Rather than taking meaningful action, CoP26 has provided powerful political and corporate actors the opportunity to cement false solutions, …

CoP26: With less than 100 months left for a climate redline, here is a deal that feels laggard

India forces coal and subsidies ‘phase out’ clause to milder and undefined ‘phase down’  

CoP26 report card: Forests need implementation, not declarations alone

The fund pledged way below what is needed to achieve goals, 10 times being pumped into companies driving deforestation

Indigenous people are heading to CoP26: “There is no solution to the climate crisis, without us”

The indigenous movement has mobilised the largest delegation of Brazilian leaders in the history of the climate conference to put forward the …

Agenda for CoP26: How to achieve net zero

At Glasgow, the world must focus on plans and targets to make developed countries net zero by 2030 and make sure that these are achieved